Age Range: All (All grades; children with parental supervision – there is something for everyone here!)

Wow! Wow! Wow! Would you like access to “the best free cultural and educational media on the web”? Then take a look at today’s amazing website.

OpenCulture.com offers “free, high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.” You’ll find enriching, intelligent literary and cultural works delivered in a variety of ways to suit every learning style.When you get to the website simply use the menu to access a terrific selection of free:

Audio Books – Enjoy fiction and literature, non-fiction, poetry, and get access to an amazing list of audio book podcast websites.

Developed in 2006, by the Director & Associate Dean of Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program and some terrific techies, this site is dedicated to “bringing relevant, perspective-changing information to large audiences.”

This is a terrific library of resources that you can use again and again. Bookmark it to return often.

Today’s website provides a unique way to discover the languages of the world. The purpose of the website is to “support beginning readers of all ages” and to “provide unique audio support to families who speak (or are learning to speak) English, indigenous or foreign languages.”

Because the books are easy readers and with the added availability audio feature, we think this would be a wonderful tool for early foreign language learners.

When arriving at the site, you will see a pop up window that asks for “Your Community” information such as country, zip or county which you can dismiss if you want. Unite for Literacy uses the information for studies. Book texts can be in English or Spanish. Click the pencil icon to choose which you want. Then select the “Narration” icon to choose the language in which you would like the stories read. The books available in that language will populate. After selecting the book you want, use the arrows to flip through the pages, and select the appropriate speaker icon for the language in which you wish to hear the story. In addition to English, Spanish, and French, other narration languages include:

Native American languages

Danish

Portuguese

Turkish

German

Italia

Vietnamese

Farsi

Chinese

Japanese

Polish

Russian

Arabic

And much more. This website could provide your beginning language student with some valuable practice and open up a new window into new vocabulary.

This website cleverly offers the visitor an opportunity to learn how to say “Hello” in many of the over 7,000 languages of the world – everything from Aleut to Zulu.

This is a great place for foreign language beginners to sample various languages to determine which ones they might like to learn how to speak. The format is simple. You click on the language you want to try and a new page opens where you’ll see:

The word “Hello” in that language

A pronunciation key

Words in English from that language

The alphabet of the language

Links to free lessons on learning the language – including audio and video files

Information about the culture

Some of the languages include:

Arabic

Cherokee

Chinese

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hindi

Italian

Japanese

Mayan

Spanish

Swahili

Tagalog

Zapotec

Non-verbal Languages include Braille and Sign Language.

Bookmark this site now to return often. (However, please note that the site is no longer updated and some of the links are broken.)

With the help of this website, visitors can learn basic words and phrases for some forty different languages.

When arriving at the website, choose from the most commonly studied languages of Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic (Moroccan), Russian, and Polish or step out of the box and explore some of the lesser studied languages such as:

Burmese

Croatian

Dutch

Estonian

Hungarian

Indonesian

Lithuanian

Romanian

Slovak

Turkish

Ukrainian

And more.

Through simple visuals and audios, categories of words and phrases include:

Essentials

Conversation

Looking for someone

Parting

Restaurant

Transportation

Family

Feelings

Colors

Numbers

In case of trouble

On the home page there is a fun interactive map that you can click on a phrase in the sidebar then select different flags of countries on the map to hear that phrase in that country’s language. An added bonus of this website is that the content is also available in an app for Android and Apple smart devices to take your learning on the go.